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Adventure Travels in the Himalaya

Adventure Travels in the Himalaya

The Himalayan range is one of the highest and fascinating ranges on the earth. It contain a rich diversity of people, cultures, religions and mountains. It has inspired travellers, adventurers and pilgrims for centuries.

This book spans a period of sixty years of adventures in the Himalayan range. It gives an insight into the range, changes that have occurred and a history of expeditions and travels in the Himalaya. The book gives an account of changing environment, modes of travels and treks and spirit of adventure-how it has grown, changed and what it is today. It talks of ski training of paramilitary forces in India undertaken by the author, and his associations with some of the legendary mountaineers of his time.

Many of these adventures were undertaken by the author with his wife Eileen. These are some of the 'dreams they won'.

John Jackson was associated with two major expeditions of the last century. First it was the successful Everest expedition of 1953. He worked for this team and helped to achieve its goal. In 1955 John was a member of the successful expedition to Kangchenjunga (28,208 feet}-the third highest peak in the world. He climbed high on the mountain and helped the expedi­tion to achieve its goal.

He participated in the Daily Mail Yeti Expedition and later made the first solo traverse, from Everest to Kangchenjunga. In between he made expedi­tions to Garhwal, Nepal, Ladakh and many other regions.

He has travelled widely on photographic journey to Canada, USA and in the Himalaya to Zanskar, Kashmir, Nepal and Indian plains. For 18 years he was director of Plas-y-Brenin Mountain Centre, a premier adventure institute, situated in the Wales, UK.

He is a popular speaker at many forums around the world. He has attended, along with his wife Eileen, all the Everest reunions. He has been a speaker at the Himalayan Club Reunion at London. Despite his advancing age he continues to trek and visit the Himalayan range, his last visit being in 2005, when he visited Darjeeling to view Kangchenjunga-the peak he was associated with fifty year ago.

Europe Rock Climbing

Europe's Best Climbs

This is the authoritative guide to the best climbs at the top rock climbing destinations in Western Europe. The route topos are accompanied by route descriptions, equipment recommendations, and accurate route ratings. This sturdy edition, with sewn binding and kivar cover, is intended for rough use at the crags.

Mountain Encyclopedia

The Mountain Encyclopedia

The Mountain Encyclopedia is the first A to Z compendium on all matters related to mountains including geological, geographical, and zoological terms and concepts as well as climbing and historical details. This books is both a reference and a guide for mountain and outdoor enthusiasts such as hikers, climbers, and mountaineers. It's filled with spectacular color photographs of breathtaking climbing and mountain scenes, many taken by the authors during their expeditions. Jamling Tenzing Norgay, son of the late Tenzing Norgay wrote the forward.

Staying alive in avalanche terrain

Staying alive in avalanche terrain

Staying alaiv in avalanche terrain offers technical skills, practical advice, and common sense approaches to dealing with avalanches. Author Bruce Tremper provides the latest avalanche knowledge, practice, and the system of techniques, procedures, checklists, and protocols the pros use to keep themselves and others alive in dangerous terrain. All outdoor enthusiasts will enjoy Tremper's down-to-earth voice. More than 80 photos and 100 illustrations make the information easy to understand and to put into practice. The more tricks you know, the more knowledge about snow stability you possess, the better your travel skills and rescue skills, and most important, the more mastery you have over your own human foibles, the better your odds for surviving in avalanche terrain. In this book, Tremper gives you everything you need, including:

. Recognizing safe terrain vs. dangerous terrain

. Tests for judging snow stability

. Safe travel techniques

. What to do if you're caught in an avalanche

. Search and rescue strategies

. Managing the human factors that cause avalanche accidents

Bruce Tremper is the director of the Forest Service Utah Avalanche Center and coordinated backcountry avalanche safety preparations for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt lake City. He is one of the nation's foremost experts on avalanches, and has appeared in news reports and documentaries produced by National Geographic, PBS, and Discovery Channel, among others.

The ABCs of Avalanche Safety

The ABCs of Avalanche Safety

The classic pocket guide to avoiding avalanches-updated with the latest in technology and technique.

• Authors have served as avalanche center directors

• The guide long used by ski patrol professionals

• Format redesigned for easy access to vital information

It's still the handy pocket guide offered at a bargain price. And it is still loaded with the vital information you need to survive in the mountains: how to determine potential avalanche hazard, traveling safely in avalanche terrain, what to do if you're caught in an avalanche, and search and rescue techniques. A respected authority since 1961, this enduring classic has been updated with the very latest research in the field, including avalanche transceiver technology.

World Climbing Images from the edge.

World Climbing Images from the edge.

As modern technical climbing evolves into numerous specialised sub-sports and the hardest climbing is pushed to increasingly high standards, we find an extraordinary, multi-faceted sport being practised

at the most spectacular places on earth.

But what is it all about? What drives climbers to attempt the world's great natural challenges? Where are some of the best places in the world to do it? And how on earth did the Huber brothers manage their record speed ascents of Yosemite's El Capitan? With stunning photography, World Climbing: Images from the Edge gives answers to these questions and much more. World Climbing: Images from the Edge is a visual celebration of modern technical climbing by one of the sport's foremost photographers, Simon Carter. Without Hollywood tricks or special effects, Carter gives us a good, hard honest look at modern technical climbing at its finest.

This extensive work features over ninety different climbers and twenty-nine climbing areas from twelve countries. It covers climbing from its easiest to its hardest but above all its best. So hold on tight as we see how the reality of modern technical climbing is even more amazing than Cliff Hanger and Vertical Limit ever lead us to believe.